Record Low Temperatures in Parts of U.S.

Associated Press ^ | Dec 07 10:56 AM US/Eastern | CATHERINE TSAI

[BenLurkin]

DENVER - Bitterly cold air poured southward across the nation's midsection Wednesday, dropping temperatures below zero to record lows from Montana to Illinois. The cold even extended south to the Texas Panhandle, where Lubbock shivered at 9 above zero, toppling a record for Dec. 7 that had stood since 1942, the National Weather Service said.

The body of a homeless man was found huddled next to a fence in Denver, where the temperature hit 11 below Wednesday, and authorities were trying to determine if he froze to death. He apparently had shed his jacket in a phenomenon called "paradoxical undressing," where victims of hypothermia become disoriented and hallucinate, deputy coroner Amy Martin said.

The Denver Rescue Mission opened all available space for the homeless.

A cold front has been creeping southward since the weekend.

In Gunnison, Alec Solimeo tended bar at the Timbers Sports Bar & Grill wearing a couple layers of clothing Tuesday as a faulty heater let the inside temperature drop to 42 degrees. The outside temperature fell to 12 below early Wednesday, the weather service said.

"I'm keeping these travelers happy," Solimeo said, adding that his regular customers apparently stayed home. "They're playing pool, drinking some Irish coffee and doing some singing."

A winter storm warning was issued Wednesday for counties in and around the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where the temperature fell from the low 40s before sunrise to the upper 20s by the end of the morning rush hour. Freezing rain and up to 2 inches of snow is predicted by Thursday morning.

Elsewhere Wednesday, the weather service said record lows included 28 below zero at Drummond, Mont., where the date's previous record was 21 below in 1971; 26 below at Seeley Lake, Mont.; 25 below at Laramie, Wyo., tying a 1978 reading; 17 below at Alliance, Neb.; 19 below at Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and 3 below at Lincoln, Ill.

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[shineon]

This has Global Warming all over it.

[BenLurkin]

[shineon]

I forgot to mention Climate Change

[Steely Tom]

Direct result of global warming.

And I have a master's degree. In Science.

[apackof2]

This has Global Warming all over

LOL

Yup, its a globally warm 23 degrees here in central Michigan today

[adorno]

This has Global Warming all over it.

Yep!

Headline should be: Global Warming Causing Record Low Temperatures.

[z3n]

It gets cold in the wintertime. mmmkay?

[jpl]

I predict this period of global cooling will last about the next three months or so, followed by a sudden reversal and a change to a period of warming.

[ErnBatavia]

I can't hack it...got down to 44 this morning and I flicked on the heat.

The northern half of the U.S. would be uninhabitable to me.

[dubie]

George Bush is trying to freeze out "minorities" with his weather control satellite. He did the same thing in the 9th ward with Katrina. /s

[michigander]

Wind chill?

[shineon]

It's Santa's fault.

[GaltMeister]

This has Global Warming all over it

Yep, and it's all because of my dastardly SUV.

[samiam1972]

LOL!

[z3n]

Direct result of global warming.
And I have a master's degree. In Science.

Well, if you had the phD, you would know that the latest research now reveals that global warming leads to global cooling.

To the enviro-wackjobs, this means "OMG! Now we are going to kill the earth 2 ways!"

To sane people, it reaffirms the fact that the earth's climate and environment operates with a complex level of cyclical phenomenon.

[cripplecreek]

It is cold for this time of year in Michigan. This is January weather at 16 degrees.

[reagan_fanatic]

It was -7 degrees here in Illinois this morning as I went to work.

Global warming sucks.

[kesg]

[maggief]